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The "brave new world" of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (infectious cerebral amyloidosis)
1Laboratory of CNS Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Molecular Neurobiology
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
The story of transmissible human spongiform encephalopathy, from its origins to the present time, enjoys the commentary of a cast of characters from Shakespeare's imaginary island in The Tempest, with a brief visit to the real island of Tasmania for a bird's eye view of the prion, and some concluding thoughts about the current state of research in the netherworlds of molecular biology and physical chemistry.